How to Learn to Walk With a Prothetic Lung

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Even with the senses we have, we can learn to sense them in different ways. This seems to me to open up great vistas of opportunity for people who have lost one or aother senses. We've done this with blindness, so people who are blind. And we did this over at gogle's offices where they have ligt ar set up and so they know the location of everything in the office. So we just brought in blind participants and fed them that day to stream, turned into patterns o vibration on their skins. They could tell, o, there's someone off to my left, and they're coming closer and closer,. Cause the vibrations getting more intense. Oh,

Imagine you were locked in a sealed room, with no way to access the outside world but a few screens showing a view of what’s outside. Seems scary and limited, but that’s essentially the situation that our brains find themselves in — locked in our skulls, with only the limited information from a few unreliable sensory modalities to tell them what’s going on inside. Neuroscientist David Eagleman has long been interested in how the brain processes that sensory input, and also how we might train it to learn completely new ways of accessing the outside world, with important ramifications for virtual reality and novel brain/computer interface techniques.

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David Eagleman received his Ph.D. in neuroscience from the Baylor College of Medicine. He is currently the CEO of Neosensory, a company that builds sensory-augmentation devices, as well as an adjunct professor at Stanford. His research has involved time perception, synesthesia, and sensory substitution. He is the founder and director of the Center for Science and Law. He is a bestselling author of both fiction and nonfiction. He was the writer and host of the TV show The Brain with David Eagleman, and writer of the Netflix documentary The Creative Brain. His most recent book is Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain.